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I call myself a Marxist and not an ML only because I’ve never gotten around to reading any Lenin. I’d probably agree with him, but feels weird to call myself an ML if I don’t actually know what Lenin added.
Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism is a banger, Lenin cites mail statistics to show clear evidence of capital’s tendency toward monopoly. I consider it a “must read” and a good jumping off point into ML theory because it uses hard evidence like that. I’ll warn you though. The run-on sentences can be entire paragraphs. My man really liked commas.
Oh and one of the banks he rails against? Deutsche Bank. It’s pretty astounding how much doesn’t change.
Reading Imperialism and seeing how many major companies Lenin calls out by name and seeing them still exist today was absolutely a mind fuck.
People talk about State & Revolution and I’m sure it’s great, but Imperialism really speaks to my soul, I think.
